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Short of things to write about and, like Georgina Oundo, desperate for attention, Uganda’s tawdry Red Pepper tabloid has rehashed an article it printed two years ago -almost word for word. It would be sad if it wasn’t so stale and boring:

And my reaction? A mighty yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn!! These guys can’t even get their basic facts right, even after two attempts. For one thing, I am not a top ten gay guy; I am a bottom eight gay guy – yes, with just eight not ten you know what!!!

And to think that they could have picked up the phone and asked me for an update on their old, musty information.

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Hello.I never thought I would be hurt by something like this. I kindly ask you to remove that Red “Shit” Pepper list off your blog. A family member of mine is there and he’s about to commit suicide. And the worst thing about it is that he’s not gay!It’s doing worse that what you actually put it up for. Please help me,Rose K.

Rose:This list is available all over the net. Are you saying that you are going to ask that it is removed from the myriad places it is at?While I sympathize with your family member’s situation, I wonder if the solution is to excise blogs. What about the newspapers and all sorts of other sites where the list is?Please give my sympathies to yourr family member and ask him to be strong. Life is too precious to voluntarily give it up over a name on a list.

Yoweri Museveni knows his history:

“Homosexuals have existed in our part of Africa, they were never persecuted, they were never discriminated … they were also never promoted. So the problem is on the promotion of homosexuality. … In our traditional society, the homosexuals would be known, it would not be approved but would be ignored”